But this is exactly why MAPS was created: ORBS was too rude and blocked people just because they didn't want to be tested.
MAPS lists do not include these blocks, but they rely instead on lists of servers that have been used for relaying spam (RSS list), dial-ups (DUL) and actual spam source (RBL).
This is why our company will be paying the pocket money of $1500 for MAPS services and not using the open lists of "some egomaniac", as you put it. Besides, paying for the service lets us demand something for our money, namely that the service works.
It is absurd that people take so lightly the idea of shaving off a couple of percent of GDP; are so quick to sacrifice the livlihood of their fellow man.
I myself find it absurd, that people will rather take even the most remote possibility that their "fellow men" will drown, die of hunger and lose their whole countries (the Netherlands) than shave a couple of percent of their precious GDP!
Maybe in America, buddy. In a more civilized country you are supposed to get him to surrender or avoid killing him, maybe just by shooting him in the foot. Otherwise, you WILL end up in jail.
Not everywhere a person loses all his rights when doing a crime.
Linus was working for University of Helsinki while he was creating first Linux kernels. Do you really think that Linux would exist if he would have been doing CS research for some company?
There are two kinds of research, basic research and more applied research. Academia does the former, which requires more abstract thinking and produces inventions that are profitable for society in the long-term. Applied research, which is more often corporate funded, produces innovations which turn quickly into profitable products.
The governments fund the former so that the latter can grow from basic research's seeds. For the technological progress to go on both must exist.
Yes, Earth could support 6 billion people if the distribution of resources was all right.
What you do not take into account is that solving this "distribution problem" means leveling the consumption of an average American to the level of "an average human", at least to a quarter of the present, probably much more.
Presently United States accounts for 25 % of world's carbon dioxide emissions while having only less than 5 percent of the population. Additionally, the food consumption should drop even more, not to mention the decrease in living space. And as the population keeps growing, we're having less and less resources per capita left.
So, next time you accuse someone using arguments like "Because we all know, you got here first and you don't want to share." make sure your arguments are not as misguided. We will all need to drop our consumption of fossil fuels, mineral resources etc. to survive, and, IMHO, it would really help to also reduce our fertility.
Advertising in all it's forms, including stuff disguised as children's shows (Pokemon)
Religious brainwashing, my little brother once was crying over the fact that I'm not going to heaven as I am not a member of a church
Violence that is potrayed by most of the American tv shows...
But I guess it will just block nudity and violence.
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Very provocative post you have there... Either it was clever trolling or very wishful thinking.
Even though the companies producing GM species would like you to think so, the problems with producing more food are not because of lack of arable land. The main problem is distribution, which is related to wrong market signals!
The economical signals guiding food production and distribution are telling wrong: In developing countries they are telling that it is more worthy to raise money crops for export or other, more valuable - in the monetary sense - crops such as wheat, when traditional crops would feed more. One does what is most beneficial for self, not for mankind, and as the value of one dollar in developing countries is so much higher than in industrial countries, the arable land that could have been used for growing food ends used for tobacco or coffee.
Elsewhere the signals are telling that one should use the soil to feed the animals and eat the meat, though it is much more wasteful - during it's life, the animal spends much of the energy that could have been gotten by just eating the grown vegetables.
The Western countries have huge surplus in agricultural production, with GM crops they will have even more. And this is with average American eating ten times more calories than average African (and you can see the results). The main problem is how to divert the extra food production from going to waste in industrial countries to the needy of developing countries!
The GM isn't too much of a solution. The GM seeds are usually sold by GM companies such as Monsanto as "terminated" versions: Once planted, you can't use the seeds from the offspring to grow new ones but you will have to buy new seeds from the company. In this sense it is like software renting, if you want. Once a farmer in developing countries discards the older seeds in favor of the GM crop, he's stuck with the company, paying yearly fees on new seeds. Hardly desirable!
So, in this light the idea to fix the situation by creating a rice that grows twice as fast seems very naive. I won't propose a solution, but I think there needs to be changes in global economy to make it more level: After all, if I make the same amount of money in an hour that a Nigerian makes in a year, we are not even talking about the same money! I could easily spend $20 without thinking about it, so the signals I send to markets about my wants are listened to much more carefully than a Nigerian's. With this kind of differences in money, I strongly oppose unrestricted globalization and international trade (which is one thing usually proposed as a solution to starvation in poor countries).
Well, I'm drifting off-topic, but I hope you think about the subject more and try to find information about it from both pro and critical sources. Why I bothered to write this long is that I once thought the very same way...:)
Take a deep breath and look at it from a distance! It's a basic cost vs. benefit comparison: If people feel like they are going to get more (the benefit) by using their time and money to upgrade (the cost) they are going to upgrade.
In any case, forcing people to upgrade can be compared to using monopoly power to sell stuff.
It will be better, because it will be more relevant.
NO! I don't want targeted advertising that knows what I might want to buy and tries to sell me that. That only gets me a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise bought. Advertising is seducing people to buy stuff they don't need.
You are trying to change the world by mailing rotting material, shredded phonebooks and bricks?
How about writing a letter to your representatives, and asking for a law similar as the one in Europe that requires companies to have a common blacklist of people who don't want any junk mail?
Your site is full of intentional misunderstandings and ungrounded accusations, and the text consists of drivel with writing style like what is usually found in the texts handed out by various religious organizations to recruit new members.
How about re-organizing your texts in such a fashion that one can get a complete picture of your ideas and grounding them on facts which you present with clear evidence?
Just a while ago I transferred all the domain names of the company I work for to another registrar. Today my boss casually notified me that he was about to pay NSI's bill because it was late...
I couldn't believe my own ears, but NSI was really trying to get some money by sending a "Final Notice" for a domain that had already been transferred to somewhere else. They even had a big notice that unless we pay they'll auction it.
It as a false assumption that mobile phones exist so that their users could be available 24/7. This might be because previously mobile phones were only affordable for those who really needed them such as businessmen, people on call etc.
These days when mobile phones are cheap and available for everyone, they are no longer such beeper-like devices. I see the fundamental idea behind a cellular phone is the idea of being able to reach a person as compared to the idea of calling a place as in regular, wired phone. This is why I think mobile phones will eventually surpass land lines as means of person-to-person communication.
It seems that this drop in demand is because (GSM) cell phone manufacturers have been concentrating their research on providing a stable WAP platform and not on other things and now it seems that consumers don't really care about WAP at all.
Need for new features has been the key reason why people replace their phones and before the improvements have really made sense: Better battery life, bigger screen, more usable phone, SMS features, downloadable ring tones and logo pictures.
But now there has been a misunderstanding in what the consumers want - it seems that very few people are replacing their phones with WAP-enabled ones. After all, consumers have been expecting "Mobile Internet", but WAP only gives them ugly text-mode horoscope services that cost far too much. And the corporate users are not buying WAP phones either as there is no remote access or Intranet solutions in use, if even available for them.
This may or may not apply in the US as the phone system is different and doesn't currently support SMS/WAP, but this is how it seems from my (technologically advanced;) Nordic perspective.
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For network devices, Alternate Pathing is crap. You're supposed to stick all the "alternate paths", that is, all the different network connections into the same switch. All right, it helps if your NIC goes down (as long as you have two NICs and not one Quad, don't laugh, I've seen SUN offer these...), but what if the switch blows up? Your SPOF (single point of failure) is just moved over to the switch. On the disk & mem & CPU side, AP is good though.
A Finnish company Nixu Oy was hired to create the Saudi Internet infrastructure and censorware. Interestingly enough, Nixu was previously known as a "geeky" shop: They do Unix and DNS consultation and at least earlier they were well known as open source, open protocol and Linux advocates. They have also created the DNS management tool NameSurfer which was later separated into another company, NameSurfer Ltd.
For me this is a reminder that not all tree-hugging open-the-goddamn-source people are fanatically against censorship, and that might be good. I guess no Slashdotter actually believes that they can really censor the Internet, and I am sure that as the volume keeps increasing, more and more material critical to the Saudi religious dictatorship gets through.
But I still doubt if it was the primary intention of Nixu Oy people in the first place - Saudi Arabia is rich with oil money anyway...
Which part of "law which requires the owner of a trademark to protect it against "erosion" and/or dilution" didn't you understand?
Once a trademark holder is notified of infrigement, they must protect their trademark or the trademark can be lost. It's not really their choice. I just wonder why any laws protecting satire don't apply here?
There will probably soon appear several small WLAN ISPs in the UK kicking some monopoly ass. England is quite flat, densely populated area and just sticking transmitters in some radio towers will probably get you people out from the grasp of BT monopoly:)
While I understand that most of Slashdot crowd like the idea of "information wanting to be free", I think it is not very beneficial for the community to share around documents leaked from Intelligence Agencies. Besides that the information in this document is of no use for most of the people, it also attracts attention of these influential agencies and gives "the Internet community" a bad reputation. Giving this kind of reports to everyone on the Net may also be dangerous for the people mentioned in these documents. I'd say: Don't go there, don't play with things too big! Freedom of speech does not mean that everyone should have access to all information in the world.
By the way, have you people noticed the news yesterday (CNNfn story here)? Mattel is planning to sell it's software company, Learning Co., which is the maker of Cyber Patrol. Learning Co. made $300 million loss last year, and I wouldn't be surprised if one of the factors leading to the decision to sell the company would be the bad reputation Mattel is getting from it, and all the trouble with legal hassle.
I tried to submit the story but it got rejected, I guess there's been too much Mattel pounding already:)
Hey Americans, goods sold on the Internet already ARE being taxed elsewhere in the world. When I bought a book from Amazon UK, I was wondering why my receipt said £ 8.68 when the list price was £ 8.33. I asked Amazon's customer service, and they told me that the European Union requires them to add the Finnish Value Added Tax to the price. Finnish tax is 22 % and UK tax is 17 %, so that's why there is the 5 % difference.
Now that all Americans scared about the 22 % I can tell you the secret: The tax is NOT paid on every step the goods get closer to the consumer. Instead, the VAT is paid for the "value added", that is, companies can deduct the tax THEY paid in the goods they bought from the tax they pay for the merchandise they sell. The system is the same everywhere in the EU.
And about the opinion part: I think taxes are good, paying taxes is right and the consumption is just another place to collect taxes.
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You can do exactly this by opening a mail account at Spamcop. It is not free, but doesn't cost too much either.
MAPS lists do not include these blocks, but they rely instead on lists of servers that have been used for relaying spam (RSS list), dial-ups (DUL) and actual spam source (RBL).
This is why our company will be paying the pocket money of $1500 for MAPS services and not using the open lists of "some egomaniac", as you put it. Besides, paying for the service lets us demand something for our money, namely that the service works.
I myself find it absurd, that people will rather take even the most remote possibility that their "fellow men" will drown, die of hunger and lose their whole countries (the Netherlands) than shave a couple of percent of their precious GDP!
Not everywhere a person loses all his rights when doing a crime.
There are two kinds of research, basic research and more applied research. Academia does the former, which requires more abstract thinking and produces inventions that are profitable for society in the long-term. Applied research, which is more often corporate funded, produces innovations which turn quickly into profitable products.
The governments fund the former so that the latter can grow from basic research's seeds. For the technological progress to go on both must exist.
PUBLIC AWARENESS ADVISORY REGARDING "4-1-9" OR "ADVANCE FEE FRAUD" SCHEMES
And a news article: ABC News: Too Good To Be True
What you do not take into account is that solving this "distribution problem" means leveling the consumption of an average American to the level of "an average human", at least to a quarter of the present, probably much more.
Presently United States accounts for 25 % of world's carbon dioxide emissions while having only less than 5 percent of the population. Additionally, the food consumption should drop even more, not to mention the decrease in living space. And as the population keeps growing, we're having less and less resources per capita left.
So, next time you accuse someone using arguments like "Because we all know, you got here first and you don't want to share." make sure your arguments are not as misguided. We will all need to drop our consumption of fossil fuels, mineral resources etc. to survive, and, IMHO, it would really help to also reduce our fertility.
Advertising in all it's forms, including stuff disguised as children's shows (Pokemon)
Religious brainwashing, my little brother once was crying over the fact that I'm not going to heaven as I am not a member of a church
Violence that is potrayed by most of the American tv shows...
But I guess it will just block nudity and violence.
Even though the companies producing GM species would like you to think so, the problems with producing more food are not because of lack of arable land. The main problem is distribution, which is related to wrong market signals!
The economical signals guiding food production and distribution are telling wrong: In developing countries they are telling that it is more worthy to raise money crops for export or other, more valuable - in the monetary sense - crops such as wheat, when traditional crops would feed more. One does what is most beneficial for self, not for mankind, and as the value of one dollar in developing countries is so much higher than in industrial countries, the arable land that could have been used for growing food ends used for tobacco or coffee.
Elsewhere the signals are telling that one should use the soil to feed the animals and eat the meat, though it is much more wasteful - during it's life, the animal spends much of the energy that could have been gotten by just eating the grown vegetables.
The Western countries have huge surplus in agricultural production, with GM crops they will have even more. And this is with average American eating ten times more calories than average African (and you can see the results). The main problem is how to divert the extra food production from going to waste in industrial countries to the needy of developing countries!
The GM isn't too much of a solution. The GM seeds are usually sold by GM companies such as Monsanto as "terminated" versions: Once planted, you can't use the seeds from the offspring to grow new ones but you will have to buy new seeds from the company. In this sense it is like software renting, if you want. Once a farmer in developing countries discards the older seeds in favor of the GM crop, he's stuck with the company, paying yearly fees on new seeds. Hardly desirable!
So, in this light the idea to fix the situation by creating a rice that grows twice as fast seems very naive. I won't propose a solution, but I think there needs to be changes in global economy to make it more level: After all, if I make the same amount of money in an hour that a Nigerian makes in a year, we are not even talking about the same money! I could easily spend $20 without thinking about it, so the signals I send to markets about my wants are listened to much more carefully than a Nigerian's. With this kind of differences in money, I strongly oppose unrestricted globalization and international trade (which is one thing usually proposed as a solution to starvation in poor countries).
Well, I'm drifting off-topic, but I hope you think about the subject more and try to find information about it from both pro and critical sources. :)
Why I bothered to write this long is that I once thought the very same way...
In any case, forcing people to upgrade can be compared to using monopoly power to sell stuff.
NO! I don't want targeted advertising that knows what I might want to buy and tries to sell me that. That only gets me a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise bought. Advertising is seducing people to buy stuff they don't need.
You are trying to change the world by mailing rotting material, shredded phonebooks and bricks?
How about writing a letter to your representatives, and asking for a law similar as the one in Europe that requires companies to have a common blacklist of people who don't want any junk mail?
Another great example of how NOT to create a website. And I guess these suckers have paid a fortune for this flash content...
How about re-organizing your texts in such a fashion that one can get a complete picture of your ideas and grounding them on facts which you present with clear evidence?
I couldn't believe my own ears, but NSI was really trying to get some money by sending a "Final Notice" for a domain that had already been transferred to somewhere else. They even had a big notice that unless we pay they'll auction it.
Maybe some suckers fall into their trap.
These days when mobile phones are cheap and available for everyone, they are no longer such beeper-like devices. I see the fundamental idea behind a cellular phone is the idea of being able to reach a person as compared to the idea of calling a place as in regular, wired phone. This is why I think mobile phones will eventually surpass land lines as means of person-to-person communication.
Number of customers replacing their phones is higher than the number of new subscribers.
Need for new features has been the key reason why people replace their phones and before the improvements have really made sense: Better battery life, bigger screen, more usable phone, SMS features, downloadable ring tones and logo pictures.
But now there has been a misunderstanding in what the consumers want - it seems that very few people are replacing their phones with WAP-enabled ones. After all, consumers have been expecting "Mobile Internet", but WAP only gives them ugly text-mode horoscope services that cost far too much. And the corporate users are not buying WAP phones either as there is no remote access or Intranet solutions in use, if even available for them.
This may or may not apply in the US as the phone system is different and doesn't currently support SMS/WAP, but this is how it seems from my (technologically advanced ;) Nordic perspective.
For network devices, Alternate Pathing is crap. You're supposed to stick all the "alternate paths", that is, all the different network connections into the same switch. All right, it helps if your NIC goes down (as long as you have two NICs and not one Quad, don't laugh, I've seen SUN offer these...), but what if the switch blows up? Your SPOF (single point of failure) is just moved over to the switch. On the disk & mem & CPU side, AP is good though.
For me this is a reminder that not all tree-hugging open-the-goddamn-source people are fanatically against censorship, and that might be good. I guess no Slashdotter actually believes that they can really censor the Internet, and I am sure that as the volume keeps increasing, more and more material critical to the Saudi religious dictatorship gets through.
But I still doubt if it was the primary intention of Nixu Oy people in the first place - Saudi Arabia is rich with oil money anyway...
Once a trademark holder is notified of infrigement, they must protect their trademark or the trademark can be lost. It's not really their choice. I just wonder why any laws protecting satire don't apply here?
Until then, hang on.
I tried to submit the story but it got rejected, I guess there's been too much Mattel pounding already :)
Now that all Americans scared about the 22 % I can tell you the secret: The tax is NOT paid on every step the goods get closer to the consumer. Instead, the VAT is paid for the "value added", that is, companies can deduct the tax THEY paid in the goods they bought from the tax they pay for the merchandise they sell. The system is the same everywhere in the EU.
And about the opinion part: I think taxes are good, paying taxes is right and the consumption is just another place to collect taxes.